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• The chancellor, George Osborne, plans to slash staffing at the Treasury from 1,350 to 1,000 and scale back the department's financial services division, the FT reports. The paper also says Osborne hopes to settle a number of departmental budgets - including justice, transport, environment and culture - by mid-September.

• The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, reports that a senior civil servant at the work and pensions department is suing the government for £300,000 after falling off a new swivel chair and hitting his head. He claims the fall left him 80% disabled.

I calculate that – were I to be in the position I was in 16 years ago - I'd now need over £2,000 and a very highly committed potential partner, just for her to be able to get the documents to board the plane and get through border controls at Heathrow.

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